The first episode in the Dead Reckoning bonus series deals with the wreck of the Nottingham Galley in 1710 on the rocks at Boon Island off the coast of Maine. Stranded for weeks with no provisions, no way to build a fire, and no viable chance of escape, the men grew desperate. 

So desperate, in fact, that the men of the Nottingham Galley turned to the bleakest of last resorts - cannibalism. 

Originally released on Patreon May 30, 2022. 

Sources

- Erickson, Stephen. "'To Obviate a Scandalous Reflection': Revisiting the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley." The New England Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 3, Sept 2010, pp. 375 - 412. 

- Snow, Edward Rowe. Storms and Shipwrecks of New England. The Yankee Publishing Company, 1943. 

- Warner, R.H. "Captain John Deane and the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley: A Study of History and Bibliography." The New England Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, March 1995, pp. 106 - 117. 

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